All my life I was told that going to college was one of the most important things I could do with my life. It was hammered into me that if I didn’t go to college, then I was doomed to a life of mediocrity. Even today, in the back of my mind, there’s a slight tinge of guilt for not having gone.
But the rest of me is incredibly grateful that I didn’t go. Or more accurately, that I didn’t finish.
I attended college for a few semesters and that was enough to convince me that the entire thing is hardly about education. Learning skills that you’ll take with you when you emerge into the real world is hardly the goal. The goal is money, and how much they can milk you for. Money is an issue that plagued our school system for ages. Not a lack of it, but a willingness to do whatever it takes to get more of it.
This was swiftly followed by the age of ideological supremacy in schools, where we now find ourselves.
Its always been my experience that schools are dangerous to children and I don’t hide my prejudice toward them. I’ve had bad experiences with them ever since I was a child, and even today they only confirm why I have a very sharp disdain toward them. While there are many educators out there who do their job because they do indeed care for children and want to teach them the basics they’ll need to succeed in life, it’s clear that far too many are in it for more nefarious reasons.
Let me tell you a story.
Back in the 5th grade, the school sat my parents down and informed them that I was having trouble paying attention in class. My mind, they said, would often drift off and completely miss what the teacher was going on about. They told my parents that it was likely that I have Attention Deficit Disorder and that they need to take me to a place where they can test me.
My parents didn’t know any better. They did as advised and an office tested me and came to the conclusion that, yes, I did indeed have ADD and they had just the solution. It was called Ritalin. They began stuffing those pills down my throat as soon as possible.
If my parents knew then what I knew now, they’d tell them to shove those pills up improper places and leave their child alone. They would tell them that I don’t have a disorder, I have a condition called “being a boy” and sitting still and listening to lectures isn’t really something male children are particularly good at.
It was much later in life that I found the truth. While my school was having that conversation with my parents, schools around the nation were also having that same conversation with other parents. The Ritalin craze had hit the United States, and the reason it had hit was easy to figure out. Doctors and schools were getting kickbacks for putting kids on it. Educational facilities had become drug pushers. The use of methylphenidate had skyrocketed. Schools were pushing Vitamin R on concerned parents under the guise of helpfulness but it was really just about money.
It was a solid example of just how dangerous modern schools could be for your child. They aren’t looking out for their health and well-being, just their bottom line.
Fast-forward to today and schools are proving it again. They’re still pushing drugs on kids, but now they’re also pushing ideologies. It’s no longer how to think but what to think. It’s no longer just learning the basics, it’s learning the basics of LGBT history, how white people are to blame for societal evils of all kinds, and how everyone else is some sort of victim. It’s teaching your kids that their gender is evil, but that they need not worry because they don’t really have a gender at all. The drugs they push aren’t just anti-psychotics, it’s hormones.
The issue goes deep, and it’s a shame that only now in 2022 that we have politicians willing to stand up and say no more.
As students head back to their classrooms this fall, I'm happy to clear up any "confusion" the media may have about appropriate curriculum:
✅ Math, Reading, Writing
❌ CRT, Sexualized Content, Transgender IdeologyFlorida schools will educate children, not indoctrinate them.
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantisFL) August 3, 2022
We have a long, long way to go before our education system gets back on track, but the fact is that as I write this, our education system is dangerous for your child. They may luck out and get administrators and teachers that actually care. They might get people who understand what children are and how they behave and work around that instead of drugging them into compliance.
But be careful. RedState has libraries worth of articles detailing the condition of today’s schools and very rarely are any of them any good. If you are sending your child to a public school, or even a college, then the default mindset should be distrust. That school must earn your trust, and stepping out of line must have consequences.
Schools are supposed to be for educating children to be competent citizens in the future, and perhaps in the future, they will be, but a massive cleanup effort has to be taken. Our schools have to be purged of ideologues, and drug kickbacks must be made illegal. We have to get back to schools being for the child, not the unions, administrators, or politicians.
We speak a lot about protecting schools from dangers from the outside, but just as much focus needs to be put on protecting children from dangers on the inside.
